commodity

Intellect is even a commodity. Everything for sale? What does the marketplace say? That is how lives are recorded and valued achieved. Thinking that your book smarts are valuable. The marketplace says otherwise. So, you're then wise in your own eyes. Affirmation thus coming from self-righteousness or the notions that others don't get it. In the end you might be the one that does not get it. The ideas that win are the ones remembered.